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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clim Change. 2016 Jan 9;135(3):555–568. doi: 10.1007/s10584-015-1592-y

Table 3.

Descriptive values of climate variables at the province-year level.

Specification Predictor Kenya Uganda Nigeria Burkina Faso Senegal
Mean SD Max Min Mean SD Max Min Mean SD Max Min Mean SD Max Min Mean SD Max Min
CRU anomalies, years 0–1 Precipitation −0.07 0.49 0.95 −1.18 0.03 0.73 1.57 −1.38 0.48 0.57 1.68 −0.86 0.44 0.50 1.45 −0.59 0.51 0.55 1.84 −0.75
Temperature 0.77 0.24 1.25 0.21 0.95 0.26 1.58 0.39 0.67 0.20 1.17 0.21 0.66 0.43 1.35 −0.22 0.67 0.31 1.47 −0.03

CRU raw values, years 0–1 Precipitation (dm) 11.87 3.61 19.49 4.13 12.40 1.65 16.55 7.61 16.13 6.78 27.87 5.27 7.82 1.23 10.25 5.81 6.73 2.77 16.74 2.63
Temperature (Cx10) 220 34 284 162 238 17 271 170 272 4 284 264 289 3 295 282 276 13 302 255
Precip. timing (mo) 6.99 0.86 8.00 5.50 5.83 0.78 8.00 4.00 5.69 0.37 6.50 5.00 5.31 0.32 6.00 5.00 4.98 0.18 5.50 4.50

MERRA anomalies, years 0–1 Precipitation −0.27 0.62 1.44 −1.29 −0.47 0.55 1.18 −1.62 −0.05 0.55 1.44 −1.63 0.18 0.43 1.21 −0.62 0.42 0.61 2.21 −0.54
Temperature 0.14 0.80 1.61 −1.45 0.54 0.68 1.66 −1.63 0.74 0.62 2.01 −0.61 0.31 1.01 1.77 −1.25 −0.11 0.61 1.13 −1.62

CRU anomalies, years 0–3 Precipitation −0.01 0.30 0.54 −0.73 0.03 0.39 0.96 −1.11 0.30 0.30 1.12 −0.32 0.27 0.30 0.93 −0.30 0.31 0.43 1.44 −0.66
Temperature 0.88 0.24 1.32 0.36 1.08 0.25 1.52 0.63 0.61 0.19 0.94 0.01 0.77 0.26 1.29 0.18 0.67 0.19 1.13 0.01